I don’t think I’ve blogged about it before, but I’ve had serious concerns for years about Google’s placement of access to content far above creators’ rights and copyright, have followed the Authors Guild/National Writers Union court case and settlement, and ended up after some internal debate choosing to remove my own works from the settlement [...]
Entries Tagged as 'copyright'
Even More Questions About the Google Book Settlement
February 21st, 2010 · Comments Off · Publishing, Web 2.0/Social Media
Tags: copyright·creators rights·fair use·google book settlement
Rant: Why Copyright MUST Be Respected
April 8th, 2009 · View Comments · Business Ethics
Someone on a forum I belonged to posted a really great article. The only problem was, it looked like the poster hadn’t gotten permission. As entrepreneurs, we need to be careful to respect the intellectual property rights of other entrepreneurs, and that includes writers, musicians, photographers, etc. It is often not difficult to get reprint [...]
Are You Respecting Copyrights in Your Social Networks?
February 8th, 2009 · Comments Off · Ethics: General, Publishing, Web 2.0/Social Media
I’m sure the person who posted was not acting out of malice but of ignorance. Many people don’t think of reprinting an article as stealing, just like they don’t think throwing a toxic cigarette butt on the ground is littering.
